ASSESSMENT ON IRANIAN INTERMEDIATE EFL LEARNERS’ RECALL OF COLLOCATION
6. Pedagogical Implications
This study is expected to contribute to the field by shedding light on the effects of DA on recall of collocations and would encourage teachers to employ this approach more than ever before for the well-being of their students.
Various organizations can also benefit from this research including: Ministry of Education,language institutions anddepartments of teaching foreign languages. Teachers who recognize that their students suffer from recall of what they read, may find it useful to broaden their students' familiarity with and understanding of the usefulness of this method by pushing their students to actually use them.
Furthermore, having in mind that the purpose of testing is to evaluate the teaching program and the improvement of the learners, this study inspires the test developers to bring about changes in testing, developing tests to affect the quality of teaching as well as improving the students ability to be creative in their performance on tests.
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